Finding the heart of the Bride’s Rite-of-Passage

With the launch of her new blog, “Letters to a Bride,” Cornelia Powell continues to lead the wedding industry in a more heart-centered direction. Why does the world need another wedding blog? While others focus on the trappings of the wedding, Cornelia—a wedding entrepreneur for over twenty-five years—focuses on the intimacy of the bride’s rite-of-passage.

“Letters to a Bride” delivers “Dear Bride-to-Be” messages of ease and reassurance to a woman’s life at a time when she can use lots of both! Each “Dear Bride-to-Be” note and musing posted to the blog gives the reader a soothing place to land, a take-a-breather moment, a bit of woman-to-woman wisdom and bride-talk! (www.CorneliaPowellWeddings.blogspot.com)

“I discovered years ago—when the first of about 20,000 brides came through my shop’s doors—what a woman wants when she becomes a bride,” Cornelia, creator and editor of the innovative and popular online magazine, Weddings of Grace, shared. “Yes, of course she wants to look breathtaking and have a beautiful, memorable event, but what a woman really desires as she begins planning her wedding is a way to stay connected to her heart’s voice.” And Cornelia found a language to help the bride—in the frenetic busyness and commercial pressure of wedding planning—to stay centered, keep her heart open, and remain more deeply connected to her relationship.

Using that soothing language, Cornelia became known as “the bride’s sage” while working with thousands of brides (and their families) in her former legendary store, as well as through conferences and lectures as a sought after public speaker. In her articles and stories—and in her upcoming book, The Bride’s Ritual Guide: Look Inside to Find Yourself (set for a late October ’09 release)—Cornelia wraps ancient bridal folklore and a little “deep breathing ease” around modern sensibility to appeal to current brides of all ages.

The “Letters to a Bride” blog continues the legacy!